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Orostan
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Postby Orostan » Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:20 pm

Bingellia wrote:
Fegun wrote:Character Description
    Name: Alterio Henderson
    Gender: Male
    Age: 16
    Appearance:


    Strengths and Weaknesses
    Skills: Not super book smart but doesn't matter when you've got a bit of common sense and resourcefulness. He's a bit a of a decent planner though he far more prefers to plan for his own personal goals. Great with directions, the yoyo for some reason, and some good upper body strength. Certainly not afraid to take risk nor to bend or break the rules to win. He's very hand's on though not a builder he has a jack of all trades skillset when it comes mechanical and hands on labor.
    Weaknesses: not a leader but certainly headstrong does not do super well following someone but doesn't mind working as a team. He's not wise and pretty one track minded preferring to get things done his own way. An avid believer in the phrase 'if you want it done right, you do it yourself' he doesn't have the best history with trusting other people. Sometimes breaking the rules get him hurt or other hurt and that weighs on him a lot. The thought of love is a weird concept to him and anything more than acquaintances makes him feel embarrassed.
    Phase One Power: lv1"in the kitchen" Body is resistant to burns and temperatures up to 76 degrees celcius and takes long to burn at exceeding temperatures

    Phase Two Powers: lv1"stay out" A quick combustion of flame ignites around the body or from a focused point on a limb. The full body flames reaches 2 feet all around or 5 feet from a focused point. The flames can only reach 525- 600 celcius and are only maintained with concentration (which means no prolonged fires and no getting hit atleast not hard or constantly) and the combustion generates paltry force. (the user can only choose to ignite the whole body or to shoot flames from two of their limbs, not both.)

    lv2 "in the kitchen" body is heavily resistant to burns but body temperature rises with prolong use (a likey chance for heat stroke and still get qwispy) Body is resistant to temperatures up 228 and has takes a longer time to burn at exceeding temperatures

    Phase Three Powers: lv3 "I took the heat" The only way for the user to get burned is from temperatures exceeding 1510 celcius Heat stroke is now more likely than burns.
    lv3 "Eruption" The combustion now produces 60 pounds of force and full body flames reach 20 feet while focused flames reach up to 50 feet with temperatures up to 1700 celcius. The user can now use all their limbs to shoot fire however they still cannot ignite their body at the same time, and still must maintain concentration.



    Background:
    Personality: Alterrio just make a joke out of anything his pain or others pain for better or worse. He tries to avoid dealing with the implications of words and likes to dance around issues if he can. He believes his own purposeful ignorance could give him at least some peace of mind but that's a lie. He's inquisitive and curious but doesn't want to be. It owes to nature to explore everything around him constantly but also means he has to actively avoid facing the truth of things he can't fix. That is why he took up odd jobs because it was so much easier to apply onself to things that were easy and could fill the mind with more mundane things, making people laugh, making sure the fauces could keep running with a twist, adding a couple numbers on the register. All alot easier than thinking or meditation. Being alone with one's thoughts is terrible.

    Backstory: Preferton local street urchin who focused a lot more on messing around than taking education seriously. Many people probably haven't seen him around school since he much prefers to hone his skills on hands-on work since in his opinion it's a lot easier than trying to apply complex formulas to real life. Alterio has been in Preferton most of his life bouncing from foster home to foster home until he go too 'old' to bounce around anymore. He wasn't clumsy or aggressive just unruly and sly. He took a lot of fun in making and performing elaborate schemes to cause trouble. Whether it was something minor like figuring out how to grab the cookie jar from the cabinet or how to turn a potato gun into a tp cannon much to the ire of many neighbors he had. What he saw as harmless fun was considered destructive and disrespectful but no one ever explained to him why.

    Despite what many believed his behavior and bad grades would lead him to Alterio always stayed the 'fun slacking jokester' to those that did know him around the school. Then when he wasn't at school he kept himself busy, either trying to be funny at the convenience store he worked at, climbing some other building only to be told off, and or fixing something up anything. In a way, he thought by making other people happy he'd be happy somedays it works and other days he wonders why it's so hard. Now with these powers maybe he could be someone of worth maybe he'd matter for once.


Accepted.

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Postby Bingellia » Wed Aug 12, 2020 12:24 am

Orostan wrote:Did you see my application?


Did you see the rules?
Orostan wrote:
Character Description
    Name:Zachariah Allen
    Gender: Male
    Age: 17
    Appearance:
    Slightly shorter than average, average build, dark hair, grey eyes



Strengths and Weaknesses
    Skills: Average student who struggles in math, but scores very well in history and writing. Also does not panic easily and takes stress well.
    Weaknesses: Not athletic and has poor coordination. Requires glasses or contacts to see more than five feet in front of him.
    Phase One Power:
    -Is capable of influencing the minds of others subconsciously to agree with him or help him. This is not mind control, and only makes others see things from his viewpoint a little bit more.

    Phase Two Powers:
    -Is capable of conscious influence over other people's minds. This is not actual mind control, and only works so long as he himself is convinced in what he's doing. If he commits a crime he can't make a cop simply not arrest him for it, only maybe understand why he did the crime however far that goes.
    -Capable of limited manipulation of electricity. This goes as far as an shock you might get from static or turning on and off a light. Requires physical contact and is not capable of harming someone significantly.

    Phase Three Powers:
    -Greater ability to influence other's minds up to actual mind control with some effort, although willpower can overcome this.
    -Capable of manipulating electricity to such a degree to make lightning. Not as powerful as actual lightning, but can kill or seriously injure someone if he puts some effort and time into it. Control over electricity directly is also enhanced.



Background:
    Zachariah, or Zach as he's more commonly called was not born in Preferton. Instead his upper middle class family moved there for work when he was 15. Because of the opportunities he had and free time when his parents, both of whom who worked, weren't home Zach has had a lot of time to decide what he believes and why. As Zach becomes more convinced of his beliefs his powers will grow as they're directly related to his will and desire to change reality in front of him. Zach is an only child, and has no real solid connections to anyone in Preferton partly because of his relatively recent arrival there.

    Personality:
    Zach generally doesn't hold a high opinion of people he doesn't think are 'correct'. He has very rigid ideas of how things are supposed to be and why, but is generally polite and sociable. He is very picky with his connections and likes a friend who can stimulate his mind with a good conversation.

    Backstory:
    Zach's parents ostensibly are consultants and bureaucrats for the town government, much to Zach's discontent. Zach, partly because of his own dissatisfaction with his family (who he loves anyways and as such as a harder time using his abilities on) is developing ideas as to why his parents seem to care more about their work than him and are increasingly treating Zach as a vessel for their own interests rather than his own. Partly as a result of being forced into taking classes he dislikes and going toe vents he also does not like to please his parents Zach is growing increasingly cynical. Despite this he has no particular anger at the world or his parents, but instead sees his parents more as victims of the social structures that surround them. It's these views that drive him towards certain ideas of how the world should look like.



No mind control allowed whatsoever. This is in the OP's rules, including "slight" influencing, and, even if it was, you’ve written a mind control character with a very strong idea of what’s “right”. Can you see where that would create conflict? The general vagueness of the powers is also a major issue. Who exactly defines what a will of a character is? While I cannot say for certain, I can strongly say that it most certainly would not be you. There's also some formatting issues with the powers that also hurt the app, such as ignoring the point system.

In terms of personality, this character is a mess of angst and contradictions. He's polite and sociable but also very much alone despite being on the Island for two years. His rather unique view is brought on by the mere absence of his parents, along with some overbearing elements. For comparison, many of the cast is dealing with significantly harsher realities ranging from domestic transphobia, self-worth issues, mental illness, and the loss of a lot of their family while not becoming angsty loner types. Angsty loner types also don't tend to be easy to introduce into a society of empowered teens once things have gotten going

Finally, and I may be one to talk, but there's a general lack of detail with the backstory and character. The vagueness of the powers is the most pressing part of this, but, for a character with such rigid views about life, you really have not detailed what those views are. Such a crucial element of the character does deserved to be detailed so that we understand what exactly they're so principled about.
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Orostan
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Postby Orostan » Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:13 am

Bingellia wrote:
Orostan wrote:Did you see my application?


Did you see the rules?
Orostan wrote:
Character Description
    Name:Zachariah Allen
    Gender: Male
    Age: 17
    Appearance:
    Slightly shorter than average, average build, dark hair, grey eyes



Strengths and Weaknesses
    Skills: Average student who struggles in math, but scores very well in history and writing. Also does not panic easily and takes stress well.
    Weaknesses: Not athletic and has poor coordination. Requires glasses or contacts to see more than five feet in front of him.
    Phase One Power:
    -Is capable of influencing the minds of others subconsciously to agree with him or help him. This is not mind control, and only makes others see things from his viewpoint a little bit more.

    Phase Two Powers:
    -Is capable of conscious influence over other people's minds. This is not actual mind control, and only works so long as he himself is convinced in what he's doing. If he commits a crime he can't make a cop simply not arrest him for it, only maybe understand why he did the crime however far that goes.
    -Capable of limited manipulation of electricity. This goes as far as an shock you might get from static or turning on and off a light. Requires physical contact and is not capable of harming someone significantly.

    Phase Three Powers:
    -Greater ability to influence other's minds up to actual mind control with some effort, although willpower can overcome this.
    -Capable of manipulating electricity to such a degree to make lightning. Not as powerful as actual lightning, but can kill or seriously injure someone if he puts some effort and time into it. Control over electricity directly is also enhanced.



Background:
    Zachariah, or Zach as he's more commonly called was not born in Preferton. Instead his upper middle class family moved there for work when he was 15. Because of the opportunities he had and free time when his parents, both of whom who worked, weren't home Zach has had a lot of time to decide what he believes and why. As Zach becomes more convinced of his beliefs his powers will grow as they're directly related to his will and desire to change reality in front of him. Zach is an only child, and has no real solid connections to anyone in Preferton partly because of his relatively recent arrival there.

    Personality:
    Zach generally doesn't hold a high opinion of people he doesn't think are 'correct'. He has very rigid ideas of how things are supposed to be and why, but is generally polite and sociable. He is very picky with his connections and likes a friend who can stimulate his mind with a good conversation.

    Backstory:
    Zach's parents ostensibly are consultants and bureaucrats for the town government, much to Zach's discontent. Zach, partly because of his own dissatisfaction with his family (who he loves anyways and as such as a harder time using his abilities on) is developing ideas as to why his parents seem to care more about their work than him and are increasingly treating Zach as a vessel for their own interests rather than his own. Partly as a result of being forced into taking classes he dislikes and going toe vents he also does not like to please his parents Zach is growing increasingly cynical. Despite this he has no particular anger at the world or his parents, but instead sees his parents more as victims of the social structures that surround them. It's these views that drive him towards certain ideas of how the world should look like.



No mind control allowed whatsoever. This is in the OP's rules, including "slight" influencing, and, even if it was, you’ve written a mind control character with a very strong idea of what’s “right”. Can you see where that would create conflict? The general vagueness of the powers is also a major issue. Who exactly defines what a will of a character is? While I cannot say for certain, I can strongly say that it most certainly would not be you. There's also some formatting issues with the powers that also hurt the app, such as ignoring the point system.

In terms of personality, this character is a mess of angst and contradictions. He's polite and sociable but also very much alone despite being on the Island for two years. His rather unique view is brought on by the mere absence of his parents, along with some overbearing elements. For comparison, many of the cast is dealing with significantly harsher realities ranging from domestic transphobia, self-worth issues, mental illness, and the loss of a lot of their family while not becoming angsty loner types. Angsty loner types also don't tend to be easy to introduce into a society of empowered teens once things have gotten going

Finally, and I may be one to talk, but there's a general lack of detail with the backstory and character. The vagueness of the powers is the most pressing part of this, but, for a character with such rigid views about life, you really have not detailed what those views are. Such a crucial element of the character does deserved to be detailed so that we understand what exactly they're so principled about.

1) The idea behind this guy is that his powers are derived from willpower. The ‘mind control’ stuff is not meant to be used against players, but on NPCs. Besides that I said in my application that any actual mind control requires significant effort and can’t be maintained easily. Against someone who’s wide awake and prepared to resist it, it would not work. The mental influencing bit is also not going to work all the time, against someone who is prepared or has the will to overcome it it wouldn’t work. I wouldn’t be the one RPing it’s effects on a player anyways.

2) The contradictions are kind of the point. This guy is not supposed to be on top of things mentally, he’s not even supposed to have a coherent world view. He just thinks things are bad, and that only he can change them. The reason why he’s sociable yet alone is because he simply doesn’t see the benefit in having friends who don’t do certain things. I want the character to change as things go on and interactions occur. There is no “loner” here.

3) I can add more detail but I don’t know what you want. My guy isn’t supposed to have a particular end goal or anything like that in mind at the start of this, the idea is that as he grows as a person his powers do too.

I can change the mind bits and get rid of them, but I want to keep the theme of a character whose powers scale directly with their mental development and purposeful action.
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Postby Dragos Bee » Wed Aug 12, 2020 2:23 am

Orostan wrote:1) The idea behind this guy is that his powers are derived from willpower. The ‘mind control’ stuff is not meant to be used against players, but on NPCs. Besides that I said in my application that any actual mind control requires significant effort and can’t be maintained easily. Against someone who’s wide awake and prepared to resist it, it would not work. The mental influencing bit is also not going to work all the time, against someone who is prepared or has the will to overcome it it wouldn’t work. I wouldn’t be the one RPing it’s effects on a player anyways.

2) The contradictions are kind of the point. This guy is not supposed to be on top of things mentally, he’s not even supposed to have a coherent world view. He just thinks things are bad, and that only he can change them. The reason why he’s sociable yet alone is because he simply doesn’t see the benefit in having friends who don’t do certain things. I want the character to change as things go on and interactions occur. There is no “loner” here.

3) I can add more detail but I don’t know what you want. My guy isn’t supposed to have a particular end goal or anything like that in mind at the start of this, the idea is that as he grows as a person his powers do too.

I can change the mind bits and get rid of them, but I want to keep the theme of a character whose powers scale directly with their mental development and purposeful action.


So, basically, you wrote a blank slate who gains increased power as he pursues a path of development and personal growth. That's not a bad idea in and of itself, but there are several problems:

1.) Two-thirds of the RP has already passed, and we're close to the climax. While there will be a sequel, most opportunities for character development have been used, except for the ones which come from one's life being put in danger.

2.) Blank Slates are tricky to do in a Forum Roleplay, especially as a character has to have something to interact with in order to develop. You want a character who learns and grows through the influence of whatever friends he acquires, right? Well, they need an incentive to interact with you first, and that's much harder if they don't know what your character looks like and what he is able to do and what his (current) position is.

3.) If you want your powers to scale directly with your development, you don't have to use mind control. If anything, mind control or mental influence means that your development is towards being someone who wants to control others, and even if they are NPCs, that's still overpowered and against the goal of the RP. What about having a more 'adaptive' power which changes based on one's mood and emotions instead, or a set of versatile powers which have multiple uses, and learning to use them in a specific style is how you develop them?

In essence, just drop the mind control and give your character some description, which isn't vague, which allows others to interact with him. For example, the 'blank slate' characters of [Insert Videogame RPG Here] have an appearance, a home, family and friends (whether horrible or not), and a reason for going out into the world. Heck, if you really want to be a blank slate with a reasonable amount of edge, why not be a foster kid or even an amnesiac teenager? You don't have to limit your creativity.

Edit: And while we're at it, 2.) Makes your guy sound like a jerk and not a blank slate, nor does it give him a lot of options for the character development you want. If your guy is a jerk and sees people as tools and people know it, then he'd be avoided unless he has money, and money has become useless at this point in the RP. More to the point, the other players in this RP are just as smart as you (apologies if that sounded insulting) and their characters are as smart as your character (most of the time). So trying to write a manipulative person who sees people as tools doesn't work unless you do want him to fail at it and become a better person. Trust me in this, personal experience.
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Postby Lessoni » Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:20 am

Orostan wrote:1) The idea behind this guy is that his powers are derived from willpower. The ‘mind control’ stuff is not meant to be used against players, but on NPCs. Besides that I said in my application that any actual mind control requires significant effort and can’t be maintained easily. Against someone who’s wide awake and prepared to resist it, it would not work. The mental influencing bit is also not going to work all the time, against someone who is prepared or has the will to overcome it it wouldn’t work. I wouldn’t be the one RPing it’s effects on a player anyways.



First off, you just kind of ignored the power system Dyelli worked hard on. Besides that, it’s not a matter of your particular powerset. If this were a comic, he’s the kind of character to get killed on the first page. It’s the precedent of allowing mind game powers sets. If the mods let you have it, they have to let everyone have it. You seem like a decent enough guy, maybe we can trust you not to use it on players, but what about the next guy who apps mind control? Or the next? Or the... you get the point. It’s a Pandora’s box best left unopened. You have what could be a very interesting character, but the idea of mind control just doesn’t work in a collaborative writing project like this. There’s plenty of powers out there besides mind control, I’m sure you can find one you like.
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Postby The Pearl River » Tue Aug 18, 2020 4:36 am

Character Description
    Name: Soma Minamoto (Soma or Sou for shirt)
    Gender: Male
    Age: 17
    Appearance: Soma has light brown hair, pale skin, and is of average height with a slim build. His hair is short and swept forward in loose spikes with a lock left long on the right side of his face. He wears a white button-up with the sleeves pushed to his elbows, a loose black tie, black pants, black, fingerless gloves, and a suspenders/belt combo with a long stretch of the belt dangling loosely from the buckle.


    Strengths and Weaknesses
      Skills: Socializing, Creating friend circles, Cooking.
      Weaknesses: School work invovlving maths, he prefers to copy most of his friend’s work and would rather to do more complicated tasks in order to help complete the task at hand because he’s to lazy to do it
      Phase One Power: Kuanyin’s Blessing: Soma’s regenerative ability is much faster other than that of a normal person, making a broke bone recover in a month, his immune system is much more resillient than a normal person would meaning it would be less likely for him to contract diseases from other people. With enough focus and discipline he could direct his powers to heal others

      Phase Two Powers: Kuanyin’s Blessing (2): Soma’s regenerative capabilities have increased meaning that the speed of his healing capabilities have increased to 2-3 weeks. He could also heal others easier with less focus and discipline

      Blind Devotion: Opposed to healing, Soma could also damage enemies by slowly draining their health over time. Although useless in close combat, he could act as a spy against the opposing side and slowly drain the enemy’s morale and health. Vicitms usually experience Fatigue, Lethargy, Nausea, and mild hallucinations after 2-3 hours of being drained by soma. The longer the victim is drained the more severe the symptoms. Blind devotion’s range is limited to 2.5 meters if not controlled by soma.



      Phase Three Powers: Goddess of Mercy or Kuanyin’s Blessing (3): Soma could easily produce his healing wave and has become much more potent and efficient and the difference between healing the party and a single person is almost innoticeable. He could also provide buffs for teammates such as creating a force field that lasts around five minutes to defend his team from enemy attack the radius of the force field is 3 metres but could grow through training and discipline.

      Blind Devotion (2): Soma could now control blind devotion easier and the effects of blind devotion now also include increased tendencies to tell the truth for victims affected by blind devotion. Blind devotion also allows the user to “see” into the subject’s memories, the process is highly painful for both soma and the subject therefore he seldom uses that part of blind devotion.Extended exposure to blind devotion will now leave victims depressed, passing out, and increased paranoia on the subject. These effects can of course be slowly healed by Kuanyin’s Blessing. Blind devotion’s range increases to 3.5 metres and if controlled into a single beam could have a range of 5-6 meters


      Sun Wukong’s Judgement: Soma summons 5 golden bands out of energy. The golden bands magnetically attracts itself to the enemy’s arms, legs, and forehead, the golden bands stuck on the enemy’s arms and legs stick to each other subduing the enemy. The golden band in the enemy’s head slowly tightens if the enemy struggles or Soma orders it to.





    Background:
    Personality: Soma has an interesting yet troublesome personality. He is high-spirited, cheerful, and carefree, but rarely thinks about the consequences of his actions. While he doesn't force his beliefs onto others, he always acts or speaks on his whims. As a result, he can behave very inappropriately in many situations. It is also very easy to taunt Soma with jeers or lure him with praises. He has a low self esteem so, he thrives on praise points, he usually performs good deeds, but then immediately ruins his own merits by seeking praises aggressively and persistently. Also, while many of his 'good deeds' turn out fine, heis very short-sighted, and some of these 'good deeds' actually turn out to be complete disasters.

    One of Soma’s positive personality traits is him being Sociable, creating friend groups with classmates and other kids he interacts with, which sometimes he uses for his advantage like copying homework, cheating on exams, and getting the fresh gossip on his enemies. When He’s being stubborn though, others may also fib a little to make him more agreeable. While he thinks very highly of himself, he actually has a business sense that is equal to or worse. Contrary to popular belief, Soma is not completely stupid. he can be very observant and knowledgeable when he wants. Soma is very knowledgeable in Biology due to his mother being a former doctor. he can be very tolerant, and will easily accept and forgive other people's imperfections and mistakes.He acts very cowardly against tough enemies. He will often make up lame excuses on why she cannot fight or that he is "urgently" needed elsewhere.

    Backstory: Formerly from Providence, Soma was the second child to Minami Minamoto and Chou Weixing. Minami owns a chinese restaurant at the north of the city while Weixing works as the head cook and co-owner of the restaurant. Back in Providence, Minami worked as a doctor and Weixing works for Anderson Computers an IT firm. The couple decided to move north to pursue their dreams of owning a business together, the family moved from Providence when Soma was 8 and Suyuan is 18. Suyuan eventually moved out after she got a scholarship to study at Harvard medical school to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a doctor. Throughout the years Soma was pushed by both of his parents to be studious and smart like his sister, Although he excels in Literature, History, and Biology. A lot of his grades aren’t that good in the Maths department. This results in him developing low self esteem and makes up for it by doing good deeds and creating new friends in hopes of getting praises from his friends and others. At the end of the day, he loves and cherises those around him and would frequently invite his friends over at his house to taste his cooking.

    Soma first manifested his powers when his broken bone recovered far quickly than any normal person would, another instance of his powers manifestation was when he was ten. His heel had been bitten by a banded krait and was rushed to the hospital. After soma’s blood was tested for traces of the venom, it was revealed that all the venom has left the stream of his body.

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Postby Dentali » Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:49 am

If i join in now will my power development be behind everyone else?
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Postby Dyelli Beybi » Mon Aug 31, 2020 11:56 am

Dentali wrote:If i join in now will my power development be behind everyone else?


Nope, I'd just assume you've developed along with everyone and just haven't revealed yourself to the group yet.



The Pearl River wrote:
Character Description
    Name: Soma Minamoto (Soma or Sou for shirt)
    Gender: Male
    Age: 17


Hi Pearl River, did we discuss this on the power building channel in the discord?

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Postby Dentali » Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:18 pm

Character Description
    Name: Glen Anderson
    Gender: M
    Age: 19
    Appearance: Cameron Monaghan
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Strengths and Weaknesses
    Skills: Mechanic, decent strength, smart
    Weaknesses: Finances, Absent Minded, pride
    Phase One Power: Can give one word commands that psychically influence a target that hears it and forces them to follow the command for up to 1 minute
    Phase Two Powers: Can give longer commands or commands to more people, the simpler the command the more people it can affect. (Up to 9 people or up to 9 words) for up to 1 hour
    Phase Three Powers: Can give a very complex command to a large group of people for up to 24 hours. (Up to 30 people or up to 30 words)


Background:
Personality: Frustrated, serious, temperate, greedy
Backstory: Glen was born into a blue collar family in Scottsdale, Arizona and has had a fairly normal life alongside his 3 younger brothers and sisters. His father is an MP and has moved his family multiple times to various postings around the country, with the most recent being Prefeton over the past 3 years. His father Malcolm works at the local military base and his mother works in a local convenience store. His parents pushed him to do well in school and then go to college, he wasn’t the smartest but worked hard and got a modest scholarship and financial aid after graduating but he and his family have decided to spend a year working and saving money so he got a job at a local auto shop as a mechanic.

He graduated from the local high school only this last year and spends 8-10 hours a day working at the autoshop. He has few friends and generally tries to stay out of trouble, he is fairly athletic and was a running back for his high school football team, not a star by any means but he is still in great shape which is aided by his manual labor job. His dream is to study business management in college and then start up his own car shop. As hobbies he enjoys working out and playing guitar.
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Postby Talchyon » Tue Sep 01, 2020 7:03 am

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I'm not the OP or anything like that, but this looks like it would fall under the forbidden powers of mind control.
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Stollberg-Stolberg
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Postby Stollberg-Stolberg » Thu Sep 03, 2020 9:42 am

I have an Question? Is there already an Dodge-Power Character here? If not could I make an Character.
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Postby Bingellia » Thu Sep 03, 2020 9:46 am

Stollberg-Stolberg wrote:I have an Question? Is there already an Dodge-Power Character here? If not could I make an Character.


Some people do already have characters with improved character and Jack Brekker can go intangible. However, because "dodge-power" is admittedly rather vague, I reckon we can work something out.
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Postby Stollberg-Stolberg » Thu Sep 03, 2020 9:58 am

Bingellia wrote:
Stollberg-Stolberg wrote:I have an Question? Is there already an Dodge-Power Character here? If not could I make an Character.


Some people do already have characters with improved character and Jack Brekker can go intangible. However, because "dodge-power" is admittedly rather vague, I reckon we can work something out.

Well I had something like, he cant be hit by [Certain Object depending on Level] So easy... like Level one is Hand to Hand Combat, Two is faster Projectiles [Arrows or something like that] and Level Three is Bullets, usefull as an distraction.
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Postby Bingellia » Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:24 pm

Stollberg-Stolberg wrote:
Bingellia wrote:
Some people do already have characters with improved character and Jack Brekker can go intangible. However, because "dodge-power" is admittedly rather vague, I reckon we can work something out.

Well I had something like, he cant be hit by [Certain Object depending on Level] So easy... like Level one is Hand to Hand Combat, Two is faster Projectiles [Arrows or something like that] and Level Three is Bullets, usefull as an distraction.


Flesh that out a bit, then I can probably give you a better idea on how acceptable it is as a base.
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Postby Stollberg-Stolberg » Sat Sep 05, 2020 7:16 am

Bingellia wrote:
Stollberg-Stolberg wrote:Flesh that out a bit, then I can probably give you a better idea on how acceptable it is as a base.

So that means that I first need to write an Application and then you review how possible it is? (I only need more context since I am not from an English speaking country, Sorry if I sound repetitive...)
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Postby Bingellia » Sat Sep 05, 2020 9:46 pm

Stollberg-Stolberg wrote:
Bingellia wrote:

So that means that I first need to write an Application and then you review how possible it is? (I only need more context since I am not from an English speaking country, Sorry if I sound repetitive...)


Yes, that is exactly what I mean. Though, just to clarify, you get one power point at P1 (So you should only have 1 power at that point), you get two more at P2 (So you should have either a Level 2 and a single level 1 power or three level ones), and get three more at P3 (so you can a bunch of combinations, but no singular power can be greater than Level 3). Keeping powers thematic is a plus though.
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Postby Stollberg-Stolberg » Sun Sep 06, 2020 2:24 pm

Character Description
    Name: Daniel Steiger
    Gender: Male
    Age: 14
    Appearance:
    Image
    [please dont judge the thing on the bottom left it took me ages to find the most acceptable picture out of all.]



Strengths and Weaknesses
    Skills: Daniel is mostly an Standard Student who has great Skills in Biology, Geography, History and Chemistry. He also has Skill in confusing People while he speaks, because he sometimes extends words or phrases in an creative and confusing way. Mostly Polite, and nice he has interests in earning money as an Butler in his free-time and can follow orders he finds ethical, without problems. His seeing is not bad, it is exceptionally good but it doesn´t go from the path of above average to the Path of Superpower.
    Weaknesses: Daniel has some weaknesses, academically his weakness is Physics, he cannot stand calculating Physical Formulas. He also has almost no Physical Strength, so he has also a dislike in most sports.
    Phase One Power: Dodged Hands Level 1.: His Body automatically Dodges Hand to Hand Combat Attacks when they are not widespread.

    Phase Two Powers: Dodged Things Level 2.: You almost cannot hit him with Hand to Hand Combat Attacks, Body automatically dodges slow Projectiles [Balls, Arrows etc.]
    Nothing Suspicious here... Level 1.: Can get away with Suspicious Situations easier.

    Phase Three Powers: The Bullets and The Matrix Level 3.: You cannot hit him in Hand to Hand Combat or with slow Projectiles, now can dodge Bullets except when they have an Bulletspread [like by Shotguns]
    Suspicious Suspision Level 3.: When caught in an Suspicious Situation things can appear to disguise himself or help him to escape, can also create Clam Juice as an Weapon.


    Background:
    Personality: Daniel has an calm and polite Personality and thinks that he can help, eventhought his Sarcasm can be seen as rude even though he doesn´t mean to hurt anyone. Sometimes he can change into an "Unwanted Phase" were he has the feeling to kill anything he sees this might be because of an still undiagnosed multiple personality disorder or because of extreme Stress, but for some reasons he doesn´t have the same feeling towards birds in this Phase were he doesn´t want to hurt them. In his "Good Phase" he is a nice person can socialise, cook and be an great helping hand.
    Backstory: Daniel was born in Stollberg an City in the Erzgebirge, in an family from the middle class and had, because of this an decent Live. He has an 28 year old sister who finished studying in the Technic University of Dresden 2 Years ago. His Mother is an Engineer and his Father works as an Foreman in an multinational Porcelain Manufactory, since his Father was moved to the Preferton Part of the Manufactory to oversee the workers there, the entire Family moved to the Island, but not before buying their old Home. Being new in Town he had an hard time to socialise in the beginning, but eventually became an normal Person.

    The First time he noticed his powers was when he told someone to Punch him to win an bet, his body automatically dodged the Punches that were thrown at him, he couldn´t believe that he wa dodging them. Another time these powers were seen when someone tried to beat him with an Pan on the backhead, but he missed due to his head dodging this Attack.
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Postby Dragos Bee » Sun Sep 13, 2020 10:25 pm

This RP is still continuing!
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Postby Khasinkonia » Sun Oct 04, 2020 11:15 am

Character Description
    Name: Sally Lagadec
    Gender: F
    Age: 14
    Appearance:
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    157cm(5’2”)



Strengths and Weaknesses
    Skills: “I’m a debate kid. If there’s one thing I can do, it’s talk, talk, talk. If you haven’t guessed, I’m really good at it. And sometimes, I even make a good point through all the words. I do athletics too, actually. Wrestling is something I really enjoy doing. I’m strong for my size, but I guess that doesn’t mean as much when I’m the size I am, especially since I do Cornish Wrestling. But on the bright side, it means I’m good at my other athletic endeavours: gymnastics and ballet.
    Weaknesses: “I’m small and probably kind of annoying. Those are my big negatives. I get distracted kind of easily if I’m not already focusing, and I haven’t really made as many friends as I would have liked at the start of high school.”
    Phase One Power:
    Seismic Sense(1): Sally can plant her feet in the ground and ingrain them there to give herself a stronger stance. With her feet touching the ground, she can almost “see” around her, even if her eyes are closed.
    Phase Two Powers:
    Seismic Sense(1): Sally can plant her feet in the ground and ingrain them there to give herself a stronger stance. With her feet touching the ground, she can almost “see” around her, even if her eyes are closed.
    Seismic Stomp(2): Sally can control amounts of earth up to around the size of her body with her mind, although physical motions can augment this to be a bit more than her.
    Phase Three Powers:
    Seismic Sense(1): Sally can plant her feet in the ground and ingrain them there to give herself a stronger stance. With her feet touching the ground, she can almost “see” around her, even if her eyes are closed.
    Seismic Stomp(3): Sally can control amounts of earth up to around the size of a car with her mind, although physical motions can augment this to be a bit more than her.
    Seismic Strength(2): Sally’s strength and durability are augmented such that she is around twice as strong as a normal person of her size, and similarly durable.


Background:
    Personality: “I’m very friendly if you don’t mind me rambling a bit, but, that said, I don’t like being wrong. I get really passionate about a lot of things, you see. And stuff I wasn’t passionate about before, I get passionate for once I have to research it for something because now I’m invested. I like to try new things, but I get frustrated when it doesn’t come out as well as the stuff I’ve worked at for years. So I don’t often develop new talents unless it’s something I just really fall head-first into or get really committed to. I overthink a lot of things sometimes and then forget what I was planning on doing first anyway, so it all ends up being for nothing. Go figure!”
    Backstory: “I’ve always been an American, but it’s interesting that neither of my parents speak English as their native language. I don’t really know when they immigrated, but I figure they must be, since we don’t speak English around the house. They say it’s a French language, but when I try to read French, it’s hard to read, like I only have an elementary understanding of it. I thought French class would be a walk in the park, but at level 3, I’m starting to run into a lot of trouble. I’ve mentioned this in passing to my mother, but she’s only insisted that I’ve atrophied since she stopped tutoring me in it. I don’t really know, as I’ve been busy with other subjects and extracurriculars and such. Honestly, even though they’re my parents, I actually don’t know offhand a lot of things about my parents. They’re older, you see, which I think is part of it, but I also just can never remember my mother’s birthday and other boring things like that.

    Growing up in Prefeton, I’ve always been very active, with dance classes and gymnastics and so on. Then, in middle school, I really got to practice my passion for speaking with the debate team. I’ve joined the high school debate team, and I’ve been really enjoying the more vigorous research we have to do on political topics. Because of the quarantine, we haven’t been able to participate in any competitions in-person, though we did get to attend our last one through google hangouts, so the research didn’t go to waste.”

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Postby The Twelve Isles » Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:28 am

This is looking super cool, I hope there is still room for one more, ive got an idea for a character in hoping to app tonight when I get off of work.
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Postby The Twelve Isles » Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:42 am

Character Description
    Name: Janet Alissa McNulty
    Gender: Female
    Age: 17
    Appearance:
    (Feel free to describe with text or put pictures in here. If you are using a picture, personally, I find it easier to picture a character who is shown in photo/realistic drawing though I'm not going to get funny about anything else. Unless it is your personal stick-man art. I might draw the line at that.)



Strengths and Weaknesses
    Skills: (Is there anything you are significantly better at than most other people? These are not super-powers... good at trigonometry would go here.)
    Weaknesses: (Is there anything your character is really rubbish at? Not essential you put anything in, but can be fun)
    Phase One Power: (Please indicate what they are, what level they are at and -specifically- what you imagine them doing)
    Phase Two Powers: (Please indicate what they are, what level they are at and -specifically- what you imagine them doing)
    Phase Three Powers: (Please indicate what they are, what level they are at and -specifically- what you imagine them doing)


Background:
Personality:
Backstory:(How did you come to be here?)
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Postby Dragos Bee » Fri Oct 09, 2020 8:13 pm

The Twelve Isles wrote:This is looking super cool, I hope there is still room for one more, ive got an idea for a character in hoping to app tonight when I get off of work.


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Postby Talchyon » Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:46 am

The Twelve Isles wrote:This is looking super cool, I hope there is still room for one more, ive got an idea for a character in hoping to app tonight when I get off of work.


It is super cool. And even though this arc is entering the last chapter, there's going to be another arc afterward.
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Postby Dragos Bee » Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:18 pm

Character Description
    Name: Daniel Palaiologos
    Gender: Male.
    Age: 14
    Appearance:

    Image
    Originally David Garcia Martinez from Lalin’s Curse, a Webcomic by Isaky on Webtoons. Used with her consent.



Strengths and Weaknesses
    Skills: Daniel Palaiologos has been taught a wide range of subjects by private tutors, including fencing and history, and has picked up a hobby of playing real time strategy, real time tactics, and grand strategy games on the computer. He is also reasonably agile and a good photographer and cyclist, riding his bicycle around his mansion grounds and the wider Preferton area.

    Weaknesses: Until he received his powers, Daniel had been quiet, unobtrusive, afraid to speak up. Now, however, he is overly optimistic, eager for adventure, and fearless to the point of foolishness. This belief in his own invincibility is a flaw because if he isn't stopped by a friend or even an acquaintance, he'd be dead.

    Phase One Power:

    Fabric Made of Light (Level One) - Daniel adds a layer of shimmering silk threads over his clothes and hands (and theoretically, his head). This fabric has the strength of Kevlar but are even lighter, almost as light as air. When faced with other powers, such as Ascot's Entropic Touch and Remote Entropy, or Nikolai's frost powers and Connor's Aura blast, Daniel's protective armor is shredded within five seconds, possibly less if he is distracted. Said threads can also be dissolved with a thought, and do not endure a few inches away from Daniel.

    Phase Two Powers:

    Costume Shape (Level One) - Daniel can shape the shimmering fabrics over his clothing into any costume or disguise he wants, all the while keeping their armoring properties. And yes, he can use these to conduct a 'Magical Boy' transformation.

    Ashbringer (Level Two) - Daniel can create a longsword of 'hard' light which weighs as light as air and can cut through metal, wood, and unarmored flesh.

    Phase Three Powers:

    Suit of Avalon (Level 3) - Daniel's costume now emits a form-fitting energy barrier which protects even the exposed portions of him from harm, and can endure equivalent abilities, including Ascot's Entropic Torrent, for one to three minutes, which can be lessened or increased by being distracted or un-distracted. This barrier can endure bullets, fire, and shrapnel.

    Excalibur (Level 3) - Daniel's 'hard light' sword can now release a wave of bright golden energy which can melt through concrete or equivalent materials.



Background:
Personality: Daniel is in the midst of a power trip, with only a subconcious realization that there is something wrong about being in one. Raised in wealth and prestige, Daniel has not actually known want or deprivation in his life, making him very naive. However, he tries not to be snobbish, and in fact wants to be bubbly and kind and willing to give of himself to make others feel better. Note that this generosity should not be taken as a sign to take advantage of him, as the boy has been taught how to detect when people genuinely need help and when they didn't.

Backstory: Daniel was born to a family with a mid-sized fortune - It would have been larger if not for his grandfather's obsession with finding even the faintest of connections between his family and the last Byzantine/Eastern Roman Emperors. Nevertheless, he had a comfortable life, and when he joined the local school, an ordinary and unobtrusive one, as Daniel was careful to keep a low profile, a low profile helped by his natural mildness. He did make a few friends, though, friends which he had fun with, but whom he can no longer remember.

As he grew up, Daniel noticed that he was bisexual, but decided not to make a big issue out of it - It didn't risk his ineheritance, after all, and his family had spare siblings who would get the estate after him if he died childless. Either way, as his lessons both in the mansion and out of it continued, Daniel noticed a detachment from him and other people, detachment that most probably came from teenage angst. He tried to be normal, to be unnoticed, all the while feeling scared of something, something he didn't know or fully comprehend.

Then the young man gained his powers and his fear faded. He began to investigate, to read, on his own, absorbing knowledge of various topics. He began training his powers, developing them by himself, and waiting for... Something.

Said something was the arrival of strange purple creatures, rodents with sharp teeth which were obviously a product of mad science. Fighting his way to his bike, Daniel Palaiologos cycled directly to the Military Base, ready to face his destiny...
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Postby Dragos Bee » Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:17 pm

After some thought, I will withdraw my application as Daniel.
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